Hack Day TV - for Y! UK Hack Day

July 6, 2007 on 2:28 pm | by ayman | In Media and Community, News | 5 Comments

For those of you who could not be there in person at the Y! UK Hack Day, we’ve got a video treat for you. Want to see what hacks were presented? Want to see how people held out under the 90-second presentation rule after 24 hours of straight hacking? But you don’t want to slough through hours-long video footage? It’s cool, you don’t have to.

Hack Day TV

We’ve made a whole new way to watch long form video on the web, in snack-bite sizes, just the way we like our TV. In Hack Day TV, you can see a list of all the hacks (including which hacks won the judges awards), you can launch URL demos for many of the hacks, and, best of all, you can jump to any hack instantly to watch it (no waiting for it to load or fast forwarding through the video to try and find things). We’ve also displayed the list of hacks directly on the video time line, which makes scanning around for hacks incredibly simple. When you select a hack, the URL will change to point to that part of the video. This way you can directly link to an individual hack, for example check out the Best Overall hack from the NYTimes R&D Lab.

Surf over to Hack Day TV - UK and check it out.


Oh Bay Area people, Learn about the Fire Eagle this Monday

July 1, 2007 on 6:09 pm | by Mor | In Media in Context, Mobile | Leave Comment

Are you in the Bay Area? Are you dying to learn about Fire Eagle and get early Super Alpha VIP access? Then come to Mobile Monday this week, July 2nd. Even if you are not dying to learn about Fire Eagle, it would be a great chance to learn and discuss location based services.

* What: July 2007 Mobile Monday (Location Based Services)
* When: July 2nd, 2007 7:00pm
* Where: TellMe Networks Inc., 1310 Villa Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
* Who: Anyone interested in mobility
* Cost: Nothing!

Official announcement; Upcoming event. See you there!


Creative Acts beyond Dissemination

June 22, 2007 on 5:21 pm | by ayman | In General, Media and Community | Leave Comment

Conceptual Art Models

Last week Ryan and I were in DC at Creativity and Cognition 2007 (C&C) where we ran a workshop on Supporting Creative Acts Beyond Dissemination.

In its 6th year, C&C addresses creativity in both theory and practice. The research aims to provide us all with a deeper understanding of the creative processes. The conference was amazing and we were excited to be there: see it in Jean-Baptiste’s Flickr set. All of the attendees have a similar goal: to enable more people to be creative more of the time.

In our workshop, we began to think about new forms of digital creativity, one with a blurred distinction between creator-centric and experience-centric creativity. In attendance, we had a diverse set of participants (artists, dancers, research directors, business consultants, and a few computer/information scientists). Bringing together this set of people to discuss a common theme was a phenomenal experience. Each of us presented and discussed our perspective on how creativity works across a variety of domains. It’s good to see how artists and engineers intersect and connect ideas (we built a concept map of the work to show some of these connections). We then reconsidered models that cleanly separate the two, and began to seek out new models in which the user of a creative work takes on a generative role, not just an interpretive or interactive one.


World Explorer: A JCDL best paper!

June 21, 2007 on 11:13 am | by ayman | In Media in Context, News, TagMaps | Leave Comment

Last night, we discovered our work on TagMaps / World Explorer won best paper at ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Rahul’s in British Colombia where he presented the paper, World Explorer: Visualizing Aggregate Data from Unstructured Text in Geo-Referenced Collections.

Read the paper, check out the demo and many shouts to Shane, Mor, Rahul, & Jeannie. Fantastic!

Oh and thanks Rahul for letting us know via this Flickr photo.


Hack with Y!RB in London

June 15, 2007 on 12:18 am | by Mor | In Media in Context, News, TagMaps, ZoneTag | Leave Comment

Hack Day: London, June 16/17 2007

What’s in a location? Our Tag Maps, ZoneTag, and Zurfer applications all involve some location-based services. In Tag Maps, we have a bounding-box query that returns a list of automatically-computed landmarks/attractions nearby. In ZoneTag, a location query returns a list of tags that might be relevant to the user at that location — perhaps useful to tag a photo they have taken there. ZoneTag also helps with Cell Tower tracking: give the ZoneTag service a cell tower ID, and it might actually tell you where in the world that cell tower is. Zurfer can also offer a few useful services - but these are not yet released.

These services are already available on the Yahoo! Developer website. If you happen to be located in London, though, and you are a hacker, and you are planning to come to Hack Day… then you might be hearing about all of these Y!RB web services first-hand this weekend.

Plus, FireEagle!


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